Would you support this project? -please read-

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AmiDelf wrote:

I, for one, would love such a project. In fact, I've been designing my own custom chipset for several years, but it's a hobby project more for my

We need a new Amiga! Its time to think this now, and not in 2-3 years, when the Amiga feeling is lost.

Please contact me at:
mberg@broadpark.no

amigaworld.org would love to help out annyone out there going for such project.

Amiga lives on! I want the Amiga feeling back. Dont you? And.. someone here just dosent read my comment. I also included 3D custom chips, intergrated into a custom based Amiga computer.

With this new Amiga, the Amigascene could come back. AmigaOne is doing something, but not ennough I feel.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

Send an Email to Dammy, he might be able to help you.

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lempkee wrote:

Amiga needs money, amiga needs an os and most of all Amiga needs to rise in its potential market before we can dream about a new custom design.

we all know what happened to the A/box , BOXER and so on, diffrent designs i would love to have but as time went on it showed how hard it would be and most of all the kind of an budget you would need.

Custom designs are a thing of the past, Wain is right when he speaks of a new technology... I see Hypertrasport and it's offspring to deliver that new idea.  It allows the use of CPU's and other hardware in ways that haven't been tried before.

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AmiDelf wrote:
Thats so wrong of you ....

Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 was all custom based Amigas and they didnt cost too much at all.

So I doubt its soooo much more expensive this times to create something new.

And to the AAA+ point:
Well, what I am talking about. I a next generation 2D/3D custom graphic chipset. Based on how AGA was made, but offcourse fully 32bit+ 32mb chip RAM++

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

You forget that Commodore had it's own fabs and the Amiga chips set was "ready designed" (4 years of wok had already been put in) when they bought it.

The AGA chipset was designed as a simple upgrade to the OCS, it did not require any serious rethinking, and they had 6 years to design it!!!

The Technology in AGA was 10 years old before it even hit the shelves... it is far too old to be useful now :-(

Even the cheapest most pathetic VGA cards can out perform the AGA chpset in terms of graphics and video, and lets not even go near the state of the AGA audio.

The only thing I miss from the AGA chipset is the copper, but even that has limited usefullness with a modern 3D chip around.

There does need to be a shake up of Technology, but the Amiga Chips set is not going to be the basis for it :-(

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AmiDelf wrote:
The first goal for this project, is set. The AGA replacement is choosen. Now its up to the company to wanting creating such set-up. Yes, thats right. Sony. Getting in contact with them will be hard, but with some help, this can be done. Remember, this is a project. And it can fail, but for me. I want it to work out.

The new Amiga, will be based oppon Emotion Engine. It wont be a easy task. This is just the hardware part and partners needs to be talked too and more. Including this, AmigaOS would be rewritten a bit to handle Emotion Engine.

More updates for this project will come later.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

Hang on? The Emotion Engine, that's the PS2's CPU, I thought you had chosen the Coldfire (A CPU much better suited to the Nuron project than your project). I think you mean the Graphics Synthesizer.

With all due respect what use is the Graphics Synthesizer without the "Emotion Engine", They need each other to work.

Anyway, The PS2 is no more powerful, in fact less so than my TNT2 in my old Athlon 600 Box.  A cheap Bottom spec Duron with Mobo and a Geforce two can all be picked up as a package for around £100 now... You cannot compete with that!

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that_punk_guy wrote:

lempkee wrote:
imaboringperson:i dont know when u used an real amiga last but , i am pretty sure amiga is "92" .. but then again i belive u where just messing :=)

Err, my Amiga 1200 has 97 keys...

He probably wasn't counting the magic invisible troll keys...